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Historic UK rocket mission has lift-off
LONDON: The first rocket ever to be launched into space from UK soil successfully released from the refurbished jet carrying it on Monday, catapulting the nation into the “exclusive” club able to send craft into orbit.The Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 carrying the 70-foot (21-metre) rocket took off from a spaceport in Cornwall, southwest England, at 2202 GMT.The rocket then detached from the aircraft and ignited at a height of 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Ireland at around 2315 GMT.It will later discharge its nine satellites and the aircraft will then return to Spaceport Cornwall, a consortium that includes Virgin Orbit and the UK Space Agency, at Cornwall Airport Newquay.Th

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